@holy-cow Nope, I get 122831.00001628253453824718136713 which is well within the accuracy of my crappy 64 bit calculator so y is not = 2954.Plenty goo...
After additional research I found that 1729???ú??2668122?ÿ+ 1 is prime so the problem reduces to y2 = 2^ 668122 to solve for y which is no tr...
That is a very difficult problem and forms the basis of some Internet encryption.?ÿ The solution could be in the tens of billons if y > (a big numb...
@john-hamilton?ÿ I was on a BLM crew where the instrumentman was passenger in a two man helicopter which lost power at low altitude and suffered a har...
@larry-scott Yup I bought a Kern DKM-1 on eBay advertised as cherry but was in totally wrecked condition with internal damage so you couldn't even rea...
@mightymoe?ÿ Around here that's handled by deferred monumentation.?ÿ Exterior monumentation has to be in place at the time of final submittal usually ...
@bill93?ÿ We're quibbling over what's reasonable here.?ÿ I've signed and filed surveys where the date of the field survey was over a year prior to my ...
?ÿ Ooh, been down the road of layering to keep things sorted out internally (record vs search coords vs found coords) etc., and have been down the ro...
@peter-ehlert?ÿ Yup, a thin SS wire, spider webs were too delicate.?ÿ Monofilament fishing line didn't appear until the 1950s and wasn't in use in sur...
Whoa, hold your horses!?ÿ I've never obliterated a found monument including those not of record except when working for the BLM on Federal lands when ...
@david-baalman?ÿ Me too except I don't append "(M)" to my measured values.?ÿ And if my measurement is within a few hundredths of record I'll tell a li...
@ontarget1?ÿ That disclaimer is ridiculous and would not hold up in court.?ÿ It's like the sign on the back of dump trucks that reads: ?ÿNot true.?ÿ...
Step one whenever staking architectural plans is to add up all the interior dimensions including wall thicknesses etc. along the lengths & widths ...
My first foray into the computer world was submitting Hollerith card decks of cross sections and design alignment for USFS road earthwork calculations...
Done several airport surveys involving calculating clearance of the approach/takeoff wedge(s) for adjacent development height obstructions, it's easy ...
Back when remote site surveying for the Forest Service we'd spike camp for 5 days at a time and hike each day 2-5 miles to the work site (P-Line for l...